Definition of "pleuritic" []

• Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with pleurisy (adjective)

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• "If it be quinsy or any other of the pleuritic affections, purge with electuaries; but if the patient be weaker, or if you abstract more blood, you may administer a clyster every third day, until he be out of danger, and enjoin total abstinence if necessary."
• "In pleuritic affections, when the disease is not purged off in fourteen days, it usually terminates in empyema."
• "The third complained of a pleuritic stitch, and spitting of blood, for which Doctor"